Dell Optiplex 9020 UEFI network booting

[Wayne Workman]

I thought I’d share this with the @Developers because it was different.

https://youtu.be/-YJdRv7mODs

I was able to get Legacy BIOS to work on the Dell Optiplex 9020 model, but I’m still not exactly happy about not getting UEFI to work on this model… the DHCP piece to make UEFI and BIOS type netbooting work together is in place and working… there’s just something about FOG and UEFI on this particular model or my particular network that just doesn’t work. :-S

[ch3i]

@Wayne-Workman Try Symantec Ghost lol

[brycew]

I have found some Dells picky… specifically with Realtek 81xx NICs. Just to throw a dart at the board have you tried a BIOS update?

[Wayne Workman]

@brycew said:

I have found some Dells picky… specifically with Realtek 81xx NICs. Just to throw a dart at the board have you tried a BIOS update?

Nope, that’s a good suggestion. I’ll try it.

[Wayne Workman]

This is what happens when I try to upload:

https://youtu.be/VZXBCdULUbk

This is what happens when I try to upload again:

https://youtu.be/Xba_mHt2670

And this is what happens when I try to run fixparts /dev/sda

[Wayne Workman]

Reading these were enlightening:

http://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/5d36a48f/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/16/building-the-next-generation-file-system-for-windows-refs.aspx

I should add that I’m trying to image Windows 8.1 that is in GPT format.

[Tom S]

That is strange. Just at quick glance it does not look like it it getting the next server dhcp option. tftp:///default.pxe

No tftp server specified. In order to get that far dhcp should have been received. Can you try a version of ipxe with cli and manually enter in commands. Romomatic downloads are a good place to get stock ipxe efi file

[Wayne Workman]

Will pending windows updates cause the errors I’m seeing in partclone below?

[Wayne Workman]

So I feel stupid, I figured it out.

You have to schedule a check disk in windows to get past this error.

From a elevated command prompt in Windows 8.1 I ran:

chkdsk /F

This will schedule a check disk at next boot.
When that is complete, the system will reboot. You HAVE TO boot to network on that next boot otherwise windows will just dirty up the partition again. I set my computer to boot to network first, and then just used the boot options F key to choose HDD for the check disk, then just walked away and FOG was uploading like a champ.

[Wayne Workman]

Bumping this thread, today at work I updated to cloud 5293 svn 4323 and UEFI network booting is WORKING for the Optiplex 9020!

ALSO, Much progress has been made in the way of GPT and Windows 8 imaging using resizable and non-resizable image types. Read more about it here: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Windows_8_UEFI_Imaging_Tips